Yasha, this is getting tiresome - your continuing use of this mailing list to obtain free technical support for (imho) bizarre problems or wishes - most of them complete with pity pledges "please help me, our IT nazi would give me no soup" (as in Soup Nazi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi, not the other, bad, nazis).
If your IT problems are real, and if they negatively affect your work productivity, why don't you have the boss of your boss have a talk with the boss of the boss of the IT departement's boss to straighten it all out? If you work at a university, you must know how this works. K.O. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 04:37:34PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3 > physical port. At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the > use of a local 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but requires a valid > NIC MAC address and will disconnect any changes. I have no 802.11 > WNIC on my desktop workstation. I just have obtained a new HP Zbook > to run X86-64 Linux to replace my old mobile workstation (laptop) > that was underprovisioned for 64 bit operation, had a worn out > keyboard and pointing device, etc. (I regret to state that I am > experimenting with OpenSUSE 13.2 on that machine for reasons beyond > the subject matter of this post.) The IT gestapo will not allow my > workstation to serve as a HTTP server, etc. -- one cannot use scp, > sftp, etc., for file transfer over the IT network from a desktop > workstation (not a designated server). I could attempt to transfer > all of the files to the research network that has much less IT > gestapo control -- but this is as tedious as what I am now doing. > Hence, a question: > > Is there a software application utility that will convert a USB > network between two machines running standard open systems protocols > to allow file transfer between the two machines? I am not referring > to the methods used with an Android device, but with a regular Linux > workstation. A cursory search of such things on the web did not > provide any insight. At one time, UUCP would do this over a RS232 > point-to-point link (cable) -- will this approach still work over a > USB (not RS232) link? Is there something better than UUCP? > > Yasha Karant -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada